feet. Grrrrrrr. We have to go pick additional stuff, which makes our
start time even later. Some days you're the pigeon, some days you feel
like the pavement. However, if it's any consolation, some believe that
if a bird poops on you it's supposed to bring good luck. Really.
Seriously. I Googled it.
Not for the faint
of heart. Some
OR newbies will never
make it. It's not
because we eat our
young. Fledglings have
been taken off of our
menu. It's because,
through no fault of
their own, they have HWF (high weenie factor). OR business is hard
work, it's gross and sometimes it stinks. I once took a dressing off a
foot to prep it for surgery and maggots fell out everywhere. (Did you
know maggots can live in 70% alcohol for at least 45 minutes?)
Sarcasm never gets old. I get along with anesthesia providers,
except when they ask if I put a forced-air warming blanket on the
patient for a 15-minute case. "Yep, sure did," I'll say, "but turning it on is
up there where you are."
He loves me, he loves me not. While on a black hole of a case,
I'd finished all I could chart at that moment and thought I'd do
a little house cleaning. There were some papers I had filled out in
advance and they weren't going to be used, so I stood at the COW
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